MPs observe minute’s silence for Ukraine

A minute’s silence was held in parliament to honour those killed in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, with House president Annita Demetriou saying that tragedy has broken out in the heart of Europe.

She condemned Russia’s illegal and unilateral decision to recognise the so-called “peoples’ republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk and the subsequent invasion.

“Cyprus remembers and has not forgotten, it cannot forget as the wounds of the Turkish invasion are still … causing us to bleed,” she told parliament.